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These are the questions on the door-swipe 'mislabelling' in the Letby case, to which I last week sought answers . Some of them are answered in my Mail on Sunday Column of 25th August. Some are not.
This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday Column: The likely next President of the USA has his mugshot taken as he faces racketeering charges. He doesn’t care. He is not ashamed to be put through a ...
Not Much Time Left to Save Julian Assange From Extradition - So Please Act ...
It is just 50 years since I graduated from what was then the shiny new University of York. I and a few hundred others had spent three years on a wooded campus entirely divorced from normal life. We ...
This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday Column Whatever do they teach them in these schools? How do we find out? How can we change it if we do not like it? In the past few years it has become clear ...
Who decided to send British troops to Ukraine? What are they doing there? What would happen were they to be killed by Russian forces, or captured by them? And what was a British surveillance plane, ...
Review of ‘Beyond the Wall’: East Germany 1949-1990’ by Katja Hoyer. Allen Lane £25 East Germany was a filthy, malevolent little state created and run by wicked men and women in the service of the ...
I had thought this would be a good week for gloating, twenty years after so many fools supported the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq or (in many ways more shamefully) failed to oppose it. Here’s what ...
THIS would make a good TV thriller: a few years in the future, with the world in economic turmoil and the whole planet in a tense, uncertain mess, French-speaking Quebec finally breaks away from ...
Why are British patriots so rude and dismissive about France? It has been fascinating to watch the sour, grudging reaction to one of the few sensible things done by any British government – the ...
This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday column WHAT a grim political choice this country now faces. On one side, here is the Red-Green fanatic Sir Keir Starmer, and his frightening and despotic claim ...
At the very height of the Blair regime, the story was told of the New Labour MP who went to get his hair cut. He was wearing headphones, which the barber gently removed before proceeding. As the ...